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Posted: 4/26/2004 5:15:07 PM EDT
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HiramRanger has kindly agreed to tack this one up...
NO DISCUSSIONS PLEASE!!! [Edited to add] This is by no means a comprehensive guide, but here are some tips on how to get your pictures of firearms to turn out OK: * Do NOT use the flash if at all possible. The light reflecting off of shiny parts and glossy finishes will create hot spots in the picture. * For the same reason, avoid sunlight. * Best shooting conditions are usually outdoors in the shade, or better yet on cloudy days. * Put the gun against a neutral background. The background should not be patterned. A solid color that's not too dark or too bright is best to preserve contrast. * Shoot at max resolution, crop later. * Include some period pieces of possible to make the shot more interesting. |
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Daddy loves you. Now go away.
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And #2 is mine as well:
Completely unexpectedly, the FedEx lady arrived delivering my long-awaited Garand from CMP early yesterday morning before I went to work. I immediately loaded up my range gear and had a very productive "lunch". I'm very pleased with the rifle. Overall condition is about what I expected. The stock has nicks and dings, but nothing too excessive and the parkerizing is in decent shape. The bore was very clean and has good rifling left. There were no malfunctions of any kind in the abbreviated range session of about 5-6 clips. I shot mostly Korean surplus, but also a gnarly mix of older surplus of all kinds of different headstamps. I detail stripped the rifle and all the internal parts are in great shape from what I could tell. I think I managed to put the rifle back together incorrectly in all possible ways. It was a great learning experience though. Serial number wise, it appears to be a May 1944 rifle. Here are the pictures: |
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This one is a '42 Izhevsk from Aztec. The barrel is virtually brand new. A couple of swabs and I was done. Excellent rifling. All matching parts with the usual lined out/renumbered floor plate. No electropenciling - just the diminutive rolled on marking on the receiver with the "proper" serial number.
The stock was in pretty good shape - the shellac had been really gooped on thick on the front handguards, so I decided to refinish it. Old, thick shellac tends to get really dark and brittle. The upper handguard was the worst, so I started sanding, thinking that I would just take some of the finish off but not all. I cut through too much, so I sanded the whole upper handguard down and stripped the stock. The upper handguard was still too light, so I wiped on some gel stain - just a little bit to make the colors match better (a light coat of stain on the stock as well to make the hue match better.) I didn't make the stock look pristine by any stretch of the imagination - it just wouldn't look right. It still has a lot of color variations and patina. After letting the stain dry overnight, I sprayed on two coats of a catalyzed lacquer and rubbed it out using 0000 steel wool. I'm very excited about the gun - just what I was hoping for, and what a steal for $50! |
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My M48A with Iron Elite mount and Bushnell Trophy 3-9x40 scope. My M38 from AIM Surplus K98 27/1940 Russian Capture from AIM |
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God Bless the USA
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My swiss collection, a 1936 and a 1956 K31, and a couple Bayo's
Letter I recieved from the Walnut stocked K31's previous owner/Soldier. Mr. Sidler was a Motorcycle operator in a Panzer tank Company. Pretty neat that many of these have Soldier Info tags hiding behind the buttplate just waiting to be discovered. |
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"Why is it that in our society today truth has become an insult?" Norman74
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I choose to invoke my Fifth Amendment privledge at this time
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I choose to invoke my Fifth Amendment privledge at this time
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Daddy loves you. Now go away.
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i like the ar lumpy....
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LIVE FREE OR DIE!
I SUPPORT ISRAEL!..I will bless those who bless Israel, and curse those who curse Israel...GOD. Yeshua Akbar! |
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hock.gif dude....you SUCK!! umm...when can I come to NZ and play? |
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and the bar is raised yet again with some fine weapons... |
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I'm gettin to like the new improved beekeeper - 50% less tightass! - QuietShootr
Islam wants you dead. Take appropriate actions. triburst1 |
kiwi you have some fine weapons in your collection
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..a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And...an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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First Lucy Lawless, now this AWESOME gun collection. New Zealand ROCKS |
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.- Henrik Ibsen
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I don't like you!! |
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Educate me, what is the full name for this? New to this side of the house. Couldn't find anything on the web with just bcd4. Thanks |
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bcd 4 manufactures WWII code and year made WWII German K98 rebarreled in 308 WIN. |
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Thanks Dan44. That is one sweet looking rifle
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I'm your huckleberry
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Yugo SKS and my first buy...a Remington 550-1
The Mosins will be up as soon as they're done....just got em http://img92.exs.cx/img92/9456/sks1.jpg http://img85.exs.cx/img85/7240/sks3.jpg http://img20.exs.cx/img20/7875/remington550-1.jpg |
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DAMN!!! The wood on your Yugo is sexy!! |
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Man, you scared me...I thought I posted the wrong pic ! hock.gif
I had to go back and check.... the wife would of killed me! Thanks, sanded down to bare wood, steel wool and then floor wax (like Tre-Wax). Smooth as a baby's bumm ! |
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Mosin-Nagant M91/30....Cleaned up, original finish.
http://img103.exs.cx/img103/7654/M9130.jpg Mosin-Nagant M44, refinished in Red Mahogony, two coats, glossed http://img103.exs.cx/img103/3792/M44.jpg The Rack...so far.................. http://img70.exs.cx/img70/7058/rack3.jpg |
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I'm new to the game and still waiting for my C&R but here's what I have so far. I know the AR-15, the WASR-10, and the 410 aren't C&R but I like them anyway...
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/901155/webley.jpg Webley Mark VI http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/901155/cz52.jpg CZ-52 http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/901155/rifles.jpg Bushmaster M4A3 Romanian WASR-10 Yugo 59/66 Russian SKS (Tula) MN 91/30 (Ishevsk) MN 38 (Ishevsk) MN 44 (Ishevsk) Remington Model 510 Targetmaster Savage Arms 410 GA Ithaca Model 37 Featherlite 12 GA |
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Yeah i know, just one C&R rifle... http://www.toad.net/~parndt/mosin1.jpg
http://www.toad.net/~parndt/mosin2.jpg |
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bad image, awesome guns. (and it's not really that bad an image) |
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Islam wants you dead. Take appropriate actions. triburst1
Isn't there already a law against Murder? Lets just keep tacking on more until we are completely socialist. sgthoskins |
That's how it starts. |
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Islam wants you dead. Take appropriate actions. triburst1
Isn't there already a law against Murder? Lets just keep tacking on more until we are completely socialist. sgthoskins |
This is a very close to mint condition Lee Enfield No5.Mk1 [Jungle Carbine]
It is a Post War Manufacture, Made in 1947, The final year of manufacture. Not only that, but once the recoil is tamed, it can really shoot well! http://usera.imagecave.com/dnynz/no5.JPG |
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you couldn't start it with a better one than a MN. My M38 costs about a 1/3 of the price of both the mauser and SKS, and it's my favorite. Shorth, light weight and one hell of a muzzle blast, plus C&R's always turns heads at any rifle range. Modern guns to me are usually boring. Yeah I have a bushmaster, but for the price I payed for that, I could of bought 10 mosin nagants, 5 mausers, 4 or 5 SKS', the list goes on. I think it's more entertaining to know you've had a gun that might have been actually used in combat. |
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Wow A lot of really nice pieces.
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I'm your huckleberry
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Finally got my camera back from the shop. I picked up a couple more rifles recently. The first one is a Brno VZ24 I got from my brother-in-law:
The second one is a Mosin-Nagant 1938 model with correct stock. Got this one from SOG during their Christmas sale for $50. Bolt/receiver/floorplate all match. |
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Daddy loves you. Now go away.
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